Recommended Western Books

Law enforcement in Appaloosa had once been Virgil Cole and me. Now there was a chief of police and twelve policemen. Our third day back in town, the chief invited us to the office for a talk. The new chief is Amos Callico, a tall, fat man in...

New York Times-bestselling author Robert B. Parker takes aim at the Old West with this brilliantly crafted follow-up to Resolution and Appaloosa, again featuring guns-for-hire Virgil Cole and Everett Hitch. W hen we last saw Virgil Cole and...

When the West was the West and cowboys still worked the range. A cowboy named Ben O'Shannon tried to live the life he loved but was erroneously accused of being a rustler and murderer. He was shot and on the run. To clear his name, he was helped by...

An entertaining selection of Western tales, many of which were originally published between 1934 and 1937, features such inimitable characters as Breckinridge Elkins, Pike Bearfield, and Buckner J. Grimes, as they make their bumbling way through the...

Boss Spearman knows that times are changing on the open range for free-grazing cattlemen who don't own land. But more and more settlers are staking claim to the land, and when a local rancher kills one of Boss's crew, he knows he must make a stand.

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Arriving in the mining boomtown of Devil’s Gate with an outlaw’s head in his saddlebag, bounty hunter Dallas Handley, instead of receiving his reward money, gets a death sentence, and it is up to his ornery father to save him and exact...

Folks tried to tell him that his father had killed himself, but Kearney McRaven knew better. His pa was no quitter. Then the boy discovered that just before the bullet had found him, the elder McRaven had had a remarkable run of luck. Hed won nearly...

Combining historical details with brilliant storytelling, this exciting novel recreates the incredible journey of Lewis and Clark as they team up with a French-Canadian trapper named Toussaint Charbonneau who offers to escort them to the Pacific, but...

Legendary ranger Sam Burrack is forced to make the most difficult decision of his life when his partner is captured by ex-Confederate renegades--the Border Dogs. His only ally is a wanted outlaw with blood on his hands, and a deadly debt to repay the...

When Abner is accused of murdering his uncle, a prominent lumber baron, Sheriff Reed Matthews, believing his prisoner to be innocent, must find the real killer among Butte City's wealthiest entrepreneurs, all of whom have a deadly secret to hide....

In 'For Vengeance Alone,' Mark Webb, an itinerant rider, finds that acting as a messenger of mercy is only the beginning of an intrigue that will find him riding for the Rafter L Ranch and confronted by a particularly fiendish form of smuggling. He...

When drifter Dan Allard takes the Sheriff's badge in La Mancha, he and his deputy Owen Fielding lock horns with Harlan Younger and his tough gang. Then banker Jabe Miller is murdered and Owen is framed for the crime. Even Dan's own friends and...

'The newest addition to Johnstone's series finds Smoke Jensen in Muddy Gap, Wyoming, taking a much-needed break from driving a herd north. But he is soon on the run again, with Jack Grubb's vicious gang of rustlers hot on his trail. Then, Chief Iron...

He was called White Buffalo, and he would be the greatest medicine man the People had ever known.  The spirit of the ancient gods beat in him like a savage drum--a mystical power as old as the land, as primeval as primitive man himself.  But even...

ROBERT FORTUNE IS THE LAST ONE TO COME HOME. Robert is not like his father, the legendary Brazos Fortune. Not a businessman like his brother Todd. Not a notorious retired gunslinger like his brother Sam. Nor the social darlings of the Black Hills...

While trying to escape the wrath of his controlling and cruel father, Jean Limousin, a master survivalist and gunslinger, heads West to start a new life after losing his fortune in a high-stakes card game. Reprint.

Bestselling American frontier novelist Terry C. Johnston has created an extraordinary, authentic saga of war, loss, and human struggle. This masterwork captures the complex, bloody tapestry of a land of men unchecked by the law, of native warriors...

In the spring of 1771, John MacKenzie arrives in British-ruled St. Augustine. He is quickly drawn into an adventure that involves defending a young woman indentured to the powerful and treacherous James Tyrone. MacKenzie and Becky Campbell set out...

'Nate King has the skills to endure the hardships of the Rockies. But the four cutthroats who heard about Nate paying for provisions with gold don't plan to make it on their own. When they kidnap Nate's young daughter, they think they've struck it...

A painful childhood, punctuated by the loss of her mother and brother at the brutal hands of her father, forces Simone Dumas to carefully shield the interior of her heart. But when her father callously 'sells' Simone into marriage, her terror is...

Frontiersman Nate King and his family's journey through the Rockies to their home is interrupted by psychotic settler, William Proctor, an insane colonel rejected by the army who will stop at nothing to claim the land as his own. Original.

The Old West comes vividly to life in two novels from bestselling author Matt Braun—America’s authentic voice of the Western Frontier EL PASOIt is 1881. El Paso, Texas, is at a crossroads. A booming sin city crawling with...

Bounty-hunter Spur McCoy is sent to capture a fugitive killer in Corners, Colorado, only to discover that the suspect, George Slocum, is the town's beloved doctor. Original.

IN SEARCH OF A NEW LIFE OUT WEST, BRAZOS FORTUNE FINDS HIS FAMILY ENDANGERED BY THE VERY QUEST HE HOPED WOULD SAVE THEM. With these simple words, Brazos Fortune sets out on his journey in the first of Stephen Blys new Fortunes of the Black Hills...

Young Matt Bodine and Sam Two Wolves became blood brothers on the day the rancher's son saved the half-breed's life, forging a bond no one could ever break. As years passed, a legend grew of the breed and the white man who rode together - and who...

He'd done the old man proud. By leaping into the path of danger, Matt Jensen foiled a train robbery in Colorado, and the governor himself presented him with a public reward. But what started on the rails has stayed on the rails - and taken on a life...

After years of almost solitary life in the mountains, Broken Leg Fitzhugh and his Cheyenne wife, Little Whirlwind, come out of the Rockies to run a trading post on the Plains, facing bitter weather, sabotage, and marauding bands of Indians. Reissue.

With the town of Victory in financial peril due to a con man's stock certificate scheme, Slocum comes to the rescue of Andy Stevenson and his beautiful sister Daisy, who unknowingly participated in the scam and could be sentenced to death by hanging....

In Phoenix a sheriff guns down a banker and robs him of a document. Going to the banker's aid, a witness hears the dying man's last words and takes hold of the map the sheriff was really after. By the time the crooked lawman realizes he has the wrong...